Answering Charges of Elitism

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I'd intended to let the parody video in this post stand on it's own, but then I read this article on Politico: essentially arguing, democrats are condescending elitists and therefore will lose control of congress, this election cycle, and deservedly so. The article points to all the likely culprits ─ Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow, President Obama, etc. ─ as the voices of condescension.

Elitism is the belief in the superiority of some class of people, and their consequent entitlement to privilege: I don't see this from the democrats, so I have no choice but to call shenanigans.

The essential message of modern liberalism is that cooperation leads to shared prosperity and government is a legitimate tool for building consensus. American Conservatism, conversely, argues that government essentially inhibits liberty and destroys individual prosperity, while gripping firmly to protectionism, a political theory itself necessitating government of considerable size and complexity.

Yeah, this is happening...

This is Tina Fey does Sarah Palin good.

Critical Thought: Iraq War v. 8/28 Malarkey

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Read an article shrugging off the continued (political) importance of the Iraq War, because polls say only 7.5% of Americans still "care" about it, one way or the other- that's 22,500,000+ people. Assuming that 7.5% of Americans is evenly distributed across states that's 2,773,625+ Californians, alone.

No back links to the cited polls, no mention of polling practices, no disclosure of poll questions.

I think that 22.5 million people are worthy of political pandering, especially while the media has dedicated too much coverage to Glenn Beck's 8/28 malarkey. We'll have a week or so of quibbling over the attendance. As if it matters- if Beck gets his 100k, I still think of the Tea Party movement as being a self-selecting and wholly insular minority; though they have a great press machine, even in their detractors.